Lucknow: In a shocking incident, a senior most police official of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), Rajesh Sahni today allegedly committed suicide in his office here, police said.
According to several media reports, Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Rajesh Sahni was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday.
A 1992-batch Provincial Police Services (PPS) officer, Rajesh Sahni used an official weapon to shoot himself on his temple at 12.45 PM in his office, ADG (Law and Order) Anand Kumar said.
Now according to ANI reported that Sahni’s body was discovered at the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) office in Lucknow.
Sahni was an Additional Superintendent of Police rank official.
Senior UP ATS officer Rajesh Sahni commits suicide by shooting self inside office:
According to a report in The Indian Express, Sahni, an additional superintendent of police with the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver at point-blank range.
Police have not yet recovered any suicide note from Sahni and is still probing the possible reasons behind the alleged suicide, according to the report.
Kumar said it was being ascertained as to why Sahni took the extreme step.
According to a report in The Times of India (TOI), sources said Sahni was on leave but reached the Gomtinagar office of ATS on Tuesday morning. Around 12.50 pm Sahni summoned his gunner Manoj and asked him to bring his service pistol from the vehicle. “He shot himself later,” said DIG law and order, on the basis of preliminary findings outside the ATS office, according to the report.
Sahni originally hailed from the Patna district of Bihar and was posted as the additional superintendent of police at the Uttar Pradesh ATS since July 2014.
Recruited in July 1997, Sahni was a 1992 batch Provincial Police Services (PPS)officer, according to the report.
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